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Funeral Director, Undertaker, Mortician; many names for a job that is of huge significance to humanity, but often shunned by society's spotlight. The ironic thing, of course, is that everyone will one day become a paying client for this age-old industry. In a rare and wholly-unique new book, one Funeral Director is breaking his silence to share the good, the bad and the sometimes zany stories from three-decades serving the community and clients' last wishes.

Let's face it, even the modern world's most experienced journalists often find it difficult to put society's quirks into words. True to the adage that wisdom can be found in the most unlikely places, a compelling new book of limericks by Martin C. Mayer captures the concept of social commentary with humorous aplomb. Its title is "LIMERICKA THE BEAUTIFUL."

On September 11th 2011, Kim McGuire was faced with news no parent should ever hear – that her son, Phil, had been killed in a car accident. The ensuing days and months naturally left McGuire in a debilitating state of believing she had nothing to live for. While she now knows that there are no easy fixes to immense grief, McGuire did finally find victory in what would become an ever-adjusting new life.

While humanity's interpretation and understanding of scripture is always evolving, rarely does a new breakthrough actually occur. After a lifetime's dedication to the Bible and thousands of hours of research, Georgia's Ron Rolaine has finally made that breakthrough.

While they often just sit a on a shelf and go unnoticed, cookbooks possess a timeless and alluring beauty. Nobody knows this better than Pukka Carpenter, who has kept his Grandmother's original cookbook near and dear his entire life – for it's a symbol of his existence.

While crime fiction has long been a staple of the literary world, readers and critics are currently crying out for wholly unique new narratives that don't succumb to recycling of the 'same old' concepts.

In small-town 1950s America, life was hard and it took grit…real grit…to follow any dreams. While children in modern society live through their cellphones and battle the fierce forces of entitlement, an uplifting new novel by Michael Panno encapsulates how rites of passage were won in days gone by.

According to society's rulebook, Tiriq Callaway was to become one of the millions of African American men viewed in a false, misrepresentative light, just because he was born into an underprivileged neighborhood. While Callaway doesn't deny that his early years were steeped in bad decisions and poor choices in terms of his attitude, a sudden and life-changing spiritual awakening saw him defy all apparent odds.

In their respective Federal press conferences, schemes such as No Child Left Behind, Race to the Top and Common Core overwhelmed the nation with a new sense of revolution for its schools. That revolution has surely come but, in the eyes of many educators, it's a revolution of obsessive testing, fraudulent teaching models and a system where profits come before grades.

There's no way to sugarcoat it – most people are truly baffled by their own behaviors. From why they are unhappy to why the morning commute makes their stress levels sky-rocket, understanding the human condition is something of a mystery. However, having spent over three decades researching behavioral genetics, James D. Baird finally has answers that all can understand.